Angela Lambert

{{Short description|British journalist, art critic, and author (1940–2007)}}

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| birth_name = Angela Maria Helps

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| language = English

| education = Wispers School
St Hilda's College

| period = 1969–2006

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| partner = Tony Price

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Angela Maria Lambert (née Helps; 14 April 1940 – 26 September 2007) was a British journalist and author. She is best known for her novels A Rather English Marriage and Kiss and Kin, the latter of which won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.{{Citation|title=Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association|url=http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/awards|date=2012-07-12}}

Biography

Lambert was born Angela Maria Helps to an English civil servant and a German-born housewife. She was unhappy when sent to Wispers School, a girls' boarding school in Sussex, where by the age of 12 she had decided that she wanted to be a writer. She went to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read politics, philosophy and economics.

In 1962, she married Martin Lambert, they had a son and a daughter, and the union ended five years later, when he left her with two young children to support. Later she also had another daughter with the Hungarian-born writer Stephen Vizinczey.{{Citation|title=Angela Lambert at telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1564288/Angela-Lambert.html#|date=2012-07-12 | location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph}}

She began her career as a journalist in 1969, working for ITN before joining The Independent newspaper in 1988.

Lambert suffered multiple immune disorders and hepatitis C (caught from a blood transfusion) which led to cirrhosis of the liver. Having survived a critical illness in February 2006, she never quite recovered, and became increasingly disabled. She lived in London and France (having bought a house in the Dordogne in 1972). She was survived by her partner of 21 years, television director Tony Price, and her three children.

Works

= Novels =

Love Among the Single Classes (1989)
No Talking After Lights (1990)
A Rather English Marriage (1992)
The Constant Mistress (1994)
Kiss and Kin (1997)
Golden Lads and Girls (1999)
The Property of Rain (2001)

= Non-fiction =

Unquiet Souls: A Social History of the Illustrious, Irreverent, Intimate Group of British Aristocrats Known As "the Souls" (1987)
1939: The Last Season of Peace (1989)
The Lost Life of Eva Braun (2006)